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Greetings, Watchers! We’ve been hard at work delving deep into the code grimoire and tuning the balance of blade and spell—and today, we’re excited to share the results of that effort with a brand new patch. This update addresses a wide range of fixes and improvements across visuals, combat, quests, and more. Whether you're journeying through the Eastern Reach for the first time or returning to tie up loose threads, your path should now be a little smoother. But that’s not all—we have something special on the horizon. Coming later this year, Watchers will be able to help us test a brand-new feature: Turn-Based Combat. We’re excited to explore this new way to experience encounters in Pillars of Eternity, and your feedback will help shape its future. More details on how to participate will be shared in the near future, so keep an eye on our socials and in our discord. For now, read on for the full list of changes in this update—and as always, thank you for walking the path with us. —The Pillars of Eternity Team General Fixes & Platform Support Mac users may now access the latest updates and bug fixes without issue. Resolved a longstanding issue where the game would boot to a black screen on systems using Turkish and certain other non-Latin-based language settings. GOG Achievements should now unlock correctly. Kickstarter and Backer rewards on Steam and GOG are once again granted properly to new players. Steam Linux users: support is now live and will be maintained in future patches. Epic Games Store users will now properly receive their Royal Edition digital rewards. Saved games now sort by most recent activity, regardless of save type (Manual, Auto, or Quick). Visual & Audio Enhancements Characters should now reliably speak when selected—Eder has once again found his voice. Grimoires will now properly vanish from view when reading scrolls. Cutscenes and maps now perform better when viewed in 4K resolution. Fixed rare T-pose occurrences in select cutscenes. Removed unintended "knock" sounds in some dialogue nodes. Act introductions and developer commentary no longer echo unintentionally. Ferry boat in Oldsong no longer appears to be sinking. Corrected VFX alignment for multiple Woodskin spell variants, including Spell Holding and Spell Bind versions. Visual and audio effects restored for Delemgans, Adragan, Pwgra, and Menpwgra spells. Party members immune to poison will no longer complain about being poisoned. All animal companions now make proper footstep sounds. Hiravias' Spiritshift FX now play correctly upon reverting to his natural form. Taena’s VO will now trigger correctly in both instances where it can be heard. Quests & Dialogue Fixes Resolved softlocks involving Aldwyn's services, both in Brighthollow and the Salty Mast after hiring Lyrinia. Simoc in Sacrificial Bloodlines will no longer drop a duplicate quest reward if slain. Slaying the High Monk after receiving Alia Braccia will no longer grant a second copy. A Mother’s Plea now correctly fails if Ranga is killed before acquiring the potion. Abrecan will still accept the letter he requests, even if you already possess it. Krivi’s Od Nua rewards can now only be claimed once. Anamfath Leader in Twin Elms will now continue The Child of Five Suns quest even if Vincent Agosti is dead. Failing Athletics or Dexterity checks in Durgan’s Battery now properly applies the Concussion affliction. Tealdor’s Bounty can now be continued later even if you initially leave the conversation. Turning in the final pieces of the Blade of the Endless Paths while Dunstan is defending the keep now grants proper rewards. Grynde's "ripple sponge addict" accusation exploit has been fixed. Crothar’s fate no longer influences the state of Korgrak’s quest. Combat & Mechanics Fixed a crash involving the Shadow Step ability. Shadow Step is now ground-targeted and no longer treated as a modal. Spellsword Wizards will now prioritize Second Wind over Deleterious Alacrity of Motion when wounded. Party AI will no longer waste Second Wind when Endurance is low but Health is too low to benefit. Party AI will no longer target charmed/confused allies with harmful abilities. Movement commands now hold position briefly, as seen in Deadfire. (Watchers may still attack if able.) Trap Accuracy no longer double-applies the attack’s Accuracy modifier. Constant Recovery now scales properly and outperforms Veteran's Recovery, as intended. Ryona’s Buckle Tenacity Accuracy bonus now updates dynamically with Endurance changes. Iron Circle damage reduction now deactivates correctly when above 26% Endurance. Killing Bolt traps now correctly target Fortitude and no longer display slash damage. Chain Lightning traps now properly deal damage. Abydon’s Hammer will no longer cause permanent Might increases when reforged. The Lady’s Hand now uses a visible trigger for easier tracking on the character sheet. Black Sanctuary shield correctly applies endurance regen during Withdraw. Royal Deadfire Cannoneer belt no longer causes trap recursion. Eyestrike and similar effects no longer trigger on beneficial “attacks.” Powder Burns and similar modals no longer damage allies unintentionally. Fulvano’s Blunderbuss now correctly charms targets on spellchance. Knock Down now respects suppression mechanics and prevents stacking. Characters under Crushing Doom are no longer able to move while proned. Izali's Boon Stealth bonus now properly clears after resting. Scrolls of Minoletta's Bounding Missiles and Boiling Spray now match their respective spells in description and range. Scrolls of Restore Endurance now have updated ranges consistent with the spell version. Salty Mast hirelings now maintain their boons when aiding at your stronghold. Skyward Kick no longer causes bugs like vertical launch or permanent prone states when missing. Multiple Unconscious effects no longer allow movement during incapacitation. UI & Interaction Improvements Culture selection on character creation is now preserved in rare level-up cases. Double-clicking a weapon now equips it to your first weapon slot. Right-clicking creatures now opens their bestiary entries (if discovered). Retraining UI no longer shows white portrait bugs. "Best of" damage types now show correctly in the character sheet. Burial Isle vision sequences can now be properly canceled. Traps that trigger aggression now show appropriate cursor warnings when opened. Trapped chest in the Abbot's Quarter during The Rising Tide can now be looted after disarming. Queued looting actions can no longer be exploited to loot multiple times. Ancestor Pendant’s Guardian Spirit no longer displays erroneous ability info. Invalid names at the end of character creation will now prevent finalization. Attribute bonuses from culture are only displayed after culture is selected. Localization Several Talents that were previously missing translations are now fully localized across supported languages. Known Issues In rare cases, the spell cursor may show an incorrect icon. This should now happen far less frequently, but further improvements are being investigated for a future patch.

I've been talking/begging about this since 2016, even added it as a begging section to my gamefaqs guide. I will literally re-install PoE1 just to take a look at this. With the last patch in 2024 I promised a hand-written letter of effusive praise if the devs got around to fixing this as well, and now I have it on this week's todo list to go out and buy some stationary. thankyousomuchomg

oh man, it was a bit of a journey trying to decipher posts and notes I wrote nine (!!) years ago, but i can confirm that the trap accuracy bug is in fact fixed. it feels so good to get this fixed, almost a bit in disbelief that it finally happened - i have an entire section of my old gamefaqs guide that i need to delete. as promised, a hand-written letter is on its way to the irvine offices. thanks so much

So, I, like, never having played Kingdom Come: Unwoked Incline, just went and looked up Theresa, because @BruceVC has kept mentioning her for a while now. I had certain expectations going into this image search, mostly because the aforementioned poster said that Veilguard did not cater enough to the horny incel core audience of these games. Now, to make this comparison properly, here's one of these character models from Veilguard that doesn't cater to the horny incel core audience. Probably because of her rack size, but that I do not know for sure, because said poster refused to actually tell what it was about that game that made it unappealing for horny incels. This is Neve in her civilian attire, i.e. in non-combat locations. Take not of the lack of anime style giant boobies. Now, before looking up Theresa, here's what I thought I would get: That's how Neve should look, I guess, to make the incels happy? And this is Theresa, apparently. At least according to a quick googling. Imagine my surprise when Theresa turned out to be a plain country bumpkin, completely unremarkable. Normal, one might say. Certainly less catered to horny incels than Neve was. This is so confusing.

Greetings Envoys, We want to take a moment to thank you for your continued reports, feedback, and suggestions. Your insights are valuable to us, and we appreciate the time and effort you put into sharing your experiences with us. Our team is committed to ongoing support, and we’re always looking for ways to improve. Your input is key to help us refine and expand Avowed, and we are excited to keep rolling out updates. Within the next few weeks, we are going to be releasing a roadmap that will go over some of the plans we have that will be coming to the game over the upcoming year, so keep your eyes peeled! Thank you for being part of our community—we appreciate your support and look forward to sharing more with you in the future! — The Avowed Team Community Requested Features The player will now receive an additional talent point at levels 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Players with save files past those levels will receive the additional points. High Contrast Documents: New option increases font size and applies bold styling to all documents, tutorials, in-game pop-ups, and the ledger's quest tab. Walk Toggle: Players using mouse and keyboard can now toggle between walking and running. HUD Customization: HUD Toggle Keybind: A new keybind (default: Backslash) hides all HUD elements for cleaner screenshots. HUD Opacity Slider: Adjust the transparency of the HUD to your preference. Camera & Compass Options: Third-Person FOV Slider: Added to Graphics Settings. Static Compass Option: Players can now lock the compass to always point North instead of rotating. Controller & Input Improvements: Full support for customizing controller keybinds. Crashes & Major Issues Game Stability Fixes: Fixed a rare crash when switching music during level transitions. Xbox App (PC) Launch Crash Fixed: No longer crashes with error 0xc0000005. Fixed a save data issue causing crashes related to encounter spawning enemies with save/loading. Resolved a Fast Travel crash that could sometimes occur. Addressed a rare crash affecting ROG Ally and Intel-integrated laptops. Main menu frame rate is now capped to prevent crashes and hardware issues. Quests & Dialogues Quest Progression Fixes: The "Quest Available" icon for Ranger Verano no longer appears after the quest becomes inaccessible. "The Finer Things in Battle" quest now triggers reliably and will retroactively complete for players who already met its requirements. Attacking the xaurips in Dehengen’s cabin before the "Find Her Cabin" objective now properly progresses the quest. "Our Dreams Divide Us Still" – Combat at Mount Forja now consistently ends to advance the quest. "Dawntreader" quest fix: Now properly turn-inable to Ofryc even if Kai and Marius are not in the party. "Elder Offerings" quest fix: Now properly resolves if the player both paid for the stolen food and returned it. "Boundaries of Antiquity" quest fix: Prevented an issue where players could skip a required conversation. "An Untimely End." - Ygwulf and the rebels no longer become hostile after sparing him. NPC & Conversation Adjustments: Fixed Adelarro and opponents failing to appear if Dreamthralls were killed before starting a side quest. Amalia will now always give you the key to her camp’s chest when speaking with her. Constable Hajime now correctly rewards players for bounties even if "Heart of Valor" isn’t completed. Marius’s Training Offer: His training offer is now more accessible in conversations. Conversations will no longer drop unexpectedly if enemies detect the player while in dialogue. Restartable Dialogues: Players can now restart conversations with: The illusion in the "Face Your Fears" quest (Shatterscarp). Runyd the watcher if dialogue ended prematurely. Ranger Casagrada in "Steel Resolve" after progressing past "Ancient Soil." Systems & Gameplay Improvements Combat & Enemy Behavior: Arrow Decals Improved: More visible in XSX Performance mode for "The Wasteland Courier" quest. Pistols now hit targets more reliably. Companions with the Shocked status effect no longer electrocute the player when nearby. Enemies react more reliably to arrows impacts. Ranged enemies are less confused when the player moves in and out of cover. Spells & Abilities: Essence cost reductions now properly apply and no longer prevent spellcasting. Fixed cases where totem effects would stop working after conversations or cutscenes. "Into the Fray" ability can now be canceled into other actions sooner, improving combo potential. Quest & Loot Fixes: Fast Travel is now disabled during certain animations to prevent getting stuck when quest items are consumed before progression. If Old Nuna was defeated but the bounty quest didn’t progress, returning to the location now correctly updates the quest. If Belderreno was defeated but no bounty trophy was received, players can now revisit the bounty location to find the trophy. Loot in the Yellowband area no longer falls into the environment, preventing collection issues. Controls & Performance: Mouse 4/5 buttons can now be bound to actions. Optimized elemental accumulation effects for better performance. Optimized the Tebaru Sanakis spirit visuals to improve performance. Reducing VO volume now also reduces reverb/echo for characters. Upscaling no longer defaults to DLSS every time the game is launched. Collision & Environmental Fixes: Adjusted Eothasian temple collision to prevent going out of bounds. Doors at Naku Tedek now correctly unseal when reloading a save if combat was already completed. Fixed rock collision near the Strangled Adra in Dawnshore. Wall textures in Emerald Stair Pargrunen Cache now render properly. Bug Fixes & Miscellaneous General Stability & Fixes: Resolved issues with respawning enemies, such as the Sporeking reappearing after being killed. Fixed unkillable Dreamthralls outside of Thirdborn. Fixed an issue where Ryngrim's rotating wheel would shift when the game was out of focus. UI & Localization Fixes: Gjeda’s Journal no longer contains duplicate entries when playing in French. The description for the food item Saucco now displays correctly in all languages. Medical Supplies quest item now has the correct icon. Navigation & World Interactions: The player can no longer become stuck in the Cistern after dying in combat with Ygwulf. Sliding under obstacles now works properly. The player can now properly talk to Ambassador Hylgard, and others if combat previously interrupted a quest-related conversation. Sargamis no longer gets stuck when walking toward the lever in Eothasian Temple. Even more fixes and Improvements! We had so many fixes in this patch, that we ran over the character limit for some of our platform's patch note features. So, here are even more fixes that went into 1.3. Content Fixes NOTE: This content section is full of story spoilers! Readers beware! Global Changes Adjusted collision on all winch assets to improve performance. Centered the UI indicator on each illusory object. Character creation options now have consistent translations in Polish. Marius's offer to train the player is now more easily accessible through conversation. The Ledger's Documents tab no longer displays debug text on the header for Lore while playing in French. Tuned variables for tracking the player's influence on The Voice to improve reactivity. Fort Northreach: Cleaned up rocks and sand assets to blend together better. Fixed multiple issues in Polish translation of documents at Fort Northreach. Improved camera framing in the conversation with Steadman Ralke at Fort Northreach. Removed parkour from certain rock formations around Fort Northreach to prevent players from accidentally getting out of bounds and falling through the world. Updated settings on rocks in the ocean to prevent players from getting stuck out of bounds. Dawnshore Added ambience SFX to a room that was missing it in Dawnshore. Addressed rendering issues on various props used in Dawnshore, including wicker baskets, window frames and glass, cobwebs, hanging water plants, book piles, swinging trap logs, beige curtains, red curtains, iron curtain rods, and bougainvillea plants. Adjusted camera framing in conversation with Dagherda in Dawnshore. Bright flash of light no longer appears in cutscene during the quest "Dawntreader". Changed collision settings in Eothasian temple to prevent players from going out of bounds. Dream conversations in Dawnshore now use the correct gendered variants when referring to the Envoy while playing in Polish. Glaedwine and Leoflaed no longer repeat their quest turn in dialog for "Escape Plan". Grysca will now enter his standing animation more reliably. If the player turns in the Luminous Adra to Sapiento de Falva as part of the quest "Precious Light", the player can no longer turn in the adra to Captain Evina Bardatto as well. Improved performance for lighting and raytracing in the Ruinous Cavern in Dawnshore. Reduced light and fog leaking in Runyd's house in Dawnshore. Reduced shadow noise in the first room of the Cistern when playing on XSX Performance mode. Removed gaps in Dawnshore's Shantytown that let players go into unintended areas. The action "Store Items" in Party Stash now uses the correct translation in Polish. The conversation with Tycg in the Aedyran Embassy in Dawnshore will no longer end unexpectedly. The hanging cloth drapes in Dawnshore's Shantytown bar now render in their intended color. The player can no longer fall and get stuck between buildings in the Militia Barracks in Paradis. The player can no longer reach an unintended area behind sewer grates in Dawnshore's Cistern. The player can no longer reach an unintended area near the God Shrine in Dawnshore. The player can no longer reach unintended areas inside buildings in Northern Paradis. The quest "Precious Light" will now use correct quest markers if the player kills without meeting Sapiento de Falva first. The Voice now correctly acknowledges the Player's pronouns during their conversation in The Beyond while playing in Polish. Updated one of Captain Soldis's lines to use the correct formatting and syntax. Ygwulf and the rebels no longer become hostile after in "An Untimely End". Emerald Stair "Quest available" icon for Ranger Verano no longer displays after the quest becomes inaccessible. Adelarro is now using the proper voiceover file during some of his lines. Bounty quests with a singular target will now update upon killing the target instead of having to defeat all the enemies in the encounter. Corrected the description for Death Knight Armor's "Bastion" enchantment in Polish. Corrected the loot list for a chest outside of Naku Tedek that would sometimes have no loot in it. Enemies outside of the Delemgan Queen's chamber will now remain hostile if the player enters combat with her. If the player defeated Old Nuna and collected the bounty trophy but the quest did not progress, they can now return to the bounty location and the quest will update. Improved lighting performance for mushrooms outside of Naku Tedek. SFX of electrified water in Naku Tedek will no longer play after the trap causing it has been disabled. The conversation with Lieutenant Fidelio will no longer end unexpectedly if the player receives the quest "Missing Rangers" from Belenna and speaks with him before finding Adelarro. The name for Fast Travel Beacons now accurately convey their purpose and meaning in Polish. The player can no longer turn in the quest "Nature vs. Nurture" infinitely to Amadio. The player is now able to talk to Ranger Casagrada as part of the quest "Steel Resolve" if the player has progressed past a certain point of the quest "Ancient Soil". Updated syntax for Death Knight Armor's description to display the correct health values. Shatterscarp Added the correct SFX to a lever in the Sand Sea Ruins in Shatterscarp. Camera now correctly centers on the Envoy when certain characters state their opinion about trying drugs. Choosing specific dialogue options when talking to the survivalists near the Ancient Lakebed in Shatterscarp no longer causes the conversation to infinitely loop. Cutscenes that occur during the quest "Shadows of the Past" now have controller vibration haptics. Giatta now uses the correct voiceover file for one of her in-combat remarks. If the player made choices that lead to Chiko's death, they will no longer appear and be alive during the quest Optimized raytracing near the Naku Kubel Approach in Shatterscarp. Overworld changes that occur after certain choices are made during the quest "Shadows of the Past" will no longer appear earlier than intended. Players can no longer get stuck in an unintended area in Shatterscarp's Shrine to Wael. Rotating wheels in Ryngrim's Domain now have the correct SFX. The audio for the sea shanty singers in Thirdborn is now removed if the singers are not present. The conversation with Nameho and Tamamu no longer ends prematurely if the player already completed specific objectives in the quest "Home Sweet Home" before speaking to them for the first time. The NPC Koda in Shatterscarp now has the proper voiceover files for some of his lines. The player can no longer get stuck inside the cliffside rocks near the Sand Sea Ruins in Shatterscarp. The player can no longer reach an unintended area near Aiko's Campsite in Shatterscarp. The player can no longer reach an unintended area near the Pargrun Cache in Shatterscarp. The player can now properly receive their reward if they patiently wait for the guard who has to pee in Thirdborn. Updated Ruanga's character model to resolve continuity errors during the quest "One Last Drink." Galawain’s Tusks Added a conditional to prevent players from talking with a specific NPC about the outcome of the quest Keep History Alive if they have not completed it yet. Added ambient crowd noises to NPC crowds in Solace Keep. Amalia will no longer fail to give you a key to her camp's chest after speaking with her in her camp. Players that have previously run into this problem will receive the key when entering Galawain's Tusks or after loading a save game in Galawain's Tusks. An NPC will no longer walk into the conversation space when talking to Warden Radut in Galawain's Tusks. Fog no longer leaks through the walls of Solace Lava Tubes when playing with Shadow Quality set to Medium. Improved lighting performance in the Southern Warden Tower in Galawain's Tusks. Prevented Councilor Kostya from saying a line of dialogue that should only play for a specific outcome in "Ancient Soil". The conversation with Renato in Galawain's Tusks will no longer trigger earlier than intended. The quest "Boundaries of Antiquity" will now properly complete if the player purified the water after Weeping Willow will now fight back when the player chooses at the end of "Boundaries of Antiquity". Endgame Regions Adjusted camera framing in conversations during the quest Adjusted text positions on the map during the quest Companions will no longer become stuck behind locked doors in The Garden. Corrected formatting of Polish translations during the final region of the game. Improved transition into the ending cutscenes and end slides of the game. The examinable can now be found in The Garden. The player can no longer access a conversation in Galawain's Tusks with Iancu meant for another area of the game. The player will no longer get stuck in an unintended area when jumping off a cliff in The Garden. The player will no longer get stuck in the environment in certain areas during the quest Updated fog in The Garden so that cloud VFX from abilities such as Blizzard and Returning Storm will properly render. UI fixes and Improvements A "new item" indicator will now appear subcategories in the ledger to help guide players to the entries they have not read yet. Added a "Next Tip" prompt for loading screens. Added a visual indicator for progress when uploading saves to Xbox Cloud. Adra Shard now uses the intended item icon. An inventory count for adra will now be displayed when viewing it in a store. Buff icons from Food no longer appear cut off if the player has several buffs active at once. Changing subtitle size will now update immediately if the player is in a conversation. Changing the game's Language in Settings no longer requires the "Apply" prompt to be selected twice. Companion abilities will no longer auto-bind to slots which have already been bound by the player. Disabled the ability to open the ledger when the player is dead or incapacitated briefly during Second Wind. Full-screen tutorials now display properly during a new game, even if they had been seen in a previous save. In the rare event of loading an incompatible save, the Main Menu's Continue button will now display a warning. Marius' abilities now have the correct respec cost. Mouse 4/5 buttons can now be bound to actions. Remove allowance of Emojis during name creation for Xbox. Removed the "removed from inventory" prompt every time the player uses a throwable. Shopkeepers will no longer get rid of items you have sold to them. The description for the food item Saucco now has the correct string in all languages. The HUD will no longer persist when leaving or entering a Party Camp. The input for canceling the throw of a grenade will now properly update to the correct input if the player changed rebound "Interact". The player can no longer continuously spend money on respecing companion points without actually allocating any. The player now retains temporary status effects/buffs from consumables when entering another map. The player will no longer become stuck in a blocking state after opening the Action Radial while blocking. The quest item Medical Supplies now uses the correct item icon. The setting "Use Xbox Saves" is now hidden when playing on an Xbox or via the Xbox app on PC, as using Xbox Saves is always required on these platforms. The text for equipping a weapon from the inventory is no longer cut off when playing with different Text Size settings. Updated Radial Menu for keyboard to use non-customizable keys 1 - 6 keys for binding abilities to the quick action bar. This is to prevent conflicting inputs from happening. Updated text formatting for the descriptions of game difficulty options. Upscaling no longer defaults to DLSS every time the game is launched. Using ESC will now return the player to the previous page in in the Action Radial instead of always closing it. Gameplay Fixes, Improvements, and Balancing A skeleton warrior in Ryngrim's Domain now notices the player if they get shot by the player while reanimating. Added an error message when attempting to save the game during a cutscene. Adra and Awakened Adra's item descriptions no longer claim that players can break these items down into even more Adra. After killing fire blights, their bodies fall inertly to the ground instead of remaining in the air. An item pickup sound now plays when the player acquires an item during a conversation. Attacks from pistols now hit the target more reliably. Captain Evina Bardatto now drops some equipment in addition to money. Clarified that Kithwarder's enchant bonus/penalty applies to Damage Reduction. Boosted Kithwarder's bonus against kith back to 10% (up from 3%). Combat music in the Lava Tubes at Solace Keep now updates correctly when the player stealth attacks an enemy without killing them. Companion's abilities now correctly scale with the tier system Companions no longer play stealth barks when the player is sliding. Companions no longer receive elemental accumulation while incapacitated. Companions with the Shocked status effect no longer electrocute the player when standing near them. Conner Tranton will now always drop his unique boots. Corrected animations seen in third person while the player is idle, running, or sprinting while holding different weapons. Crowd NPCs in Solace Keep will no longer teleport to the center of the world in front of the player. Dawnshore Merchants now stock anywhere between 3-5 lockpicks at a time in their shops, increased from the previous amount of 1-3. Emerald Stair's exploration music now continues to play when loading saves in Naku Tedek and exiting to the overlands. Enemies no longer teleport to Yatzli while she's actively teleporting to a new location in combat. Enemies will no longer get stuck doing nothing after being hit with a knockback attack. Enemy health bars will no longer disappear after the player becomes incapacitated in combat. Essence cost reductions now apply consistently, instead of blocking the player from casting spells despite having sufficient Essence. Fire Blights can now attack players that are currently blocking with a shield while targeting the creature. Ghost summons Huginn and Muninn sound more like ghastly spirits and less like living people. Ghosts' Stamina Drain aura no longer remains after they die. God Shrine Totems at Party Camp now have a green smoky effect if their buff is currently active. Godless chests can now spawn firearms again. This also allows the player to find unique firearms such as Magic Mistol in their intended location. Ice platforms and shock hazards should no longer spawn in midair when using elemental melee weapons over shallow water. If the player falls off a cliff during the second trial in Naku Kubel, they will proceed to die instead of activating Second Wind. If the player performs a Wand Special Attack on an enemy after knocking back and stunning them with Grimoire Snap, Wand Special Attack VFX now properly displays under the enemy. Improved performance for summoned creatures that receive damage over time or disappear on death. Increased Young Bears' resistance to the impact of Power Attacks from Bows, making them less likely to become stunned too often. Into the Fray can now be cancelled into other actions earlier, to create more follow-up/combo possibilities. Lowered the stun threshold on Delemgan Summoners. can no longer get stunned when transitioning between combat phases, and her stun meter now resets upon being healed after transitioning. Lödwyn's sword now uses the correct appearance during her entrance cutscene in Dawnshore. Maegfolc no longer get launched unintentionally high in the air when ragdolled by Pull of Eora Marius's Hunter's Sense ability will now highlight loot from defeated enemies. Offhand one-handed Axes now play the correct Power Attack animations while in playing in third-person. Optimized Amadio's ally buffing abilities to increase performance. Players can now use any ranged weapon to target Magran's Fury Stalks, Eye of Rymrgand Nests, Electric Carnivorous Lilies, Ivy of Forgotten Souls, and Essence Generators. This will allow Wand projectiles to target and home in on them. Players on Story Time difficulty are now twice as resistant to the impact of incoming attacks, making it harder to interrupt the player when they perform actions in combat. Players on Story Time difficulty will now slowly regenerate up to 50% of their maximum Health and Essence while out of combat. Power Slide now affects all enemies except for Maegfolc. Increased the impact of Power Slide Rank 2. Prevented an error that would cause enemies to respawn after they have died. Many enemies that respawned incorrectly due to this issue should be dead when loading an affected save. Prevented auto-saving from occurring when the player is not in a safe position Quality of life improvements to the firearm reloading system. Quest titles no longer linger on the HUD even after being completed. Rank 2 of Returning Storm now correctly displays the duration of the ability in its description. Reduced all Adra costs for upgrading equipment by 1. Reducing VO volume now also reduces the reverb/echo from characters, making them inaudible when setting VO volume to 0. Removed exploit that allowed players to skip summoned character cooldowns by unequipping the item that grants the summon ability Removed the cube that appeared after interacting with certain merchants Resolved inconsistencies in targeting powder kegs and other objects. Second Wind now has no cooldown on Story Time difficulty. Small Spiders, Small Beetles, and Extra Small Beetles no longer have collision during their death animations. The "Press Any Button" prompt now plays a UI sound effect when the player interacts with it. The Disappointer's enchantment "Shared Misery" now correctly applies the debuff to surrounding enemies and no longer stacks multiple times on the same enemy. The Grimoire dry firing animation no longer plays if the player tries to cast a grimoire spell immediately after switching to that grimoire. It now only plays when trying to cast a grimoire spell on cooldown or if the player has insufficient essence. The player can no longer damage a Damaged Maegfolc by hitting where its missing arm would be. The player will now receive an additional talent point at levels 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Players with save files past those levels will receive the additional points. The reticle now accurately indicates whether or not Izmalt's Meteoric Apparatus will hit an enemy when the player aims it at them. The Sporeking will no longer respawn if the player already killed it. The underwater audio filter now properly updates when moving the camera above or underwater in Third-Person. The Yellowbands no longer respawn after the player completes their bounty quest. Updated Destul's health bar to correctly display the creature's name. Upgrading Grimoire Mastery no longer reduces the essence cost of spells cast with Grimoires. Upgrading weapons on Hard and Path of the Damned will now require more upgrade materials: Hard: +1 Plant Materials per upgrade, +1 Adra Materials per tier upgrade, Path of the Damned: +2 Plant Materials per upgrade, +2 Plant Materials per tier upgrade Using an ability right after the ability cooldown wears off will always be successful. Wand attacks now properly home towards targets standing in water. Water Beetles' projectiles now properly home towards targets if the beetles attack them while standing in water. When changing Difficulty settings, the player's health and essence now correctly update relative to the newly chosen difficulty. When loading any save data, gamepad vibration now remains turned on if the player already had it enabled. When playing on the difficulty Path of the Damned, enemies now have +20% bonus attack speed. Wildwalker Gloves now have a cooldown, preventing NPCs from getting indefinitely rooted in place by its effects. Xaurips in Fort Northreach will now react to the player shooting down Magran's Fury and killing a xaurip. Yatzli no longer stops following the player while exploring the Abandoned Mine in Shatterscarp. Ygwulf no longer gets stuck in a loop if his target disappears when he teleports at the start of combat. Animation Improvements Adjusted animations of Hasui during the quest "First Contact with the Enemy". Adjusted animations of Iwao during conversation. Adjusted animations of NPCs mouths, emotions, and gestures when talking outside of conversations. Adjusted facial animations in conversation on Lynna in Dawnshore. Eilara's Grimoire no longer has blank pages. Enemies will no longer have their weapon grow in size if they were attacked while a certain animation was being used. Giatta will no longer have an abnormal snapping animation in conversations during the quest Improved animations of the last character encountered during the quest Improved lipsync for Yatzli's recruitment conversation in Thirdborn. Improved lipsync of Hylgard when talking to him during the quest Improved lipsync of Kai when talking to him in Emerald Stair about Improved lipsync of Ranhyr during the quest Lödwyn will no longer disappear after certain cutscenes during the quest "Shadows of the Past". Miscellaneous A facial hair option the player can choose for their Envoy no longer stretches abnormally during cutscenes. Adjusted Fog and lighting in shanty town. Adjusted some godlike features to not clip with the player's head. Adjusted some hairstyles to not clip with the player's head. Blocking with a weapon now uses the correct SFX when playing in first-person. Corrected clothing materials on Merchant Alonya's outfit. Dreamthrall Bears no longer pop in textures when viewed from afar. Enabled Ray Tracing for character hair to improve the appearance of character shadows. Fix visuals in terrain around Lake Lacuna. For windows platform, it now sets the default graphics upscaling value to an upscaling that is supported by the computer it is running on. Improved the heat warping effect of air above lava. In Ryngrim's Domain, the rotating wheel behind Ryngrim no longer changes position when game is out of focus. Modified rendering of background assets in the Garden to improve performance. NPCs in Naku Tedek now have the proper arm appearances. Optimized certain lights in the Garden to improve performance. Optimized Ice Wand AOE visual effects to improve performance. Optimized the visual effects on Clear Out to improve performance. Optimized the visual effects on Fan of Flames to improve performance. Optimized the visual effects on Jolting Touch to improve performance on higher FPS modes. Optimized the visual effects on Spirit Lance to improve performance. Optimized the visual effects on the weapon 'Emerald Splitter' to improve performance. Returning Storm rank 3, now consistently displays it's visual effects. Summoned Earth Blights now more consistently display their visual effects. The Aurochs-Skin Grimoire now includes the proper sigils on its pages. The screen no longer flickers and stretches when charging an attack with ranged weapons. Yatzli's voiceover no longer abruptly cuts off during a conversation with her in The Garden.

Im surprised how much I'm enjoying avowed. It might just be my strong bias towards obsidian games. I also wonder if I had played this before KCD2 if my thoughts would have changed. Main character has a set role. Choices are pretty basic. Missions are very repetitive and yet... I am really enjoying myself. It could be that Eora is doing the heavy lifting.

I appreciate 3D games where light reflects off the shiny scales of the human characters because then I know that THEY'RE SNAKE PEOPLE

Pathfinder 1e is often described as D&D 3.75e. So it does have a lot of the same rules and mechanics bloat of D&D 3.5e. For me, D&D 3.5e is the best D&D edition, so I have no problem with Pathfinder. But others will disagree of course. But overall, P:Km is a great game. I played it with the strategic subgame turned on, and I actually enjoyed at least some of the elements of that part of the game.

My sisters loved to cheat so that they could build houses...I, on the other hand, have always hated base-building or anything even remotely adjacent to it, so I was more the type to start with whatever is the default options they give you and never move a single thing ever. So instead I would spend a couple of hours customizing and playing dress-up with my character, and then I'd try to play the character, and then I would quickly realize that I really must be missing something because The Sims seems to have no gameplay, no interesting stories, and no characters that aren't just walking RNG dice roll people that don't matter. I don't understand The Sims, there seems to be a chunk of brain matter missing from my head that makes the game work for other people but not me.

Eh, they also killed the G, I mean, why else would the Enola Gay entries have disappeared.

Greetings Envoys, A new patch is now available! This update includes important fixes, so be sure to update your game when you see it. If you are encountering any problems, please continue to let us know at Obsidian Entertainment Support . Thanks for playing, and we appreciate your support! — The Avowed Team Community Requested Features Added 'high contrast' support for several UI screens. Added Native Anti-Aliasing option for FSR. Quests The quest "Our Dreams Divide Us Still" will now correctly advance at the end of combat for affected players. This includes a retroactive fix for players who load a save made post combat. Turning the winch to save Solace Keep will no longer fail to save Solace Keep in rare cases. UI Fixes and Improvements Experience Gained notifications no longer stay visible indefinitely when the hide HUD option is toggled. Quest markers and items on the Compass now appear as intended if the player has selected the option "Lock Compass to North" in Settings. Status icons near the player's health bar will no longer be cut off if many statuses are active at once. Switching upscaling settings to TSR will no longer unnecessarily apply the Screen Percentage value. The setting to Hide XP Notifications now behaves as expected. When using the quest tracking option to not track the next quest, Quest beacons will no longer point to completed quest objectives, when a quest is complete. Bug Fixes Addressed a rare instance where enemies could disappear from the map. Consumed items no longer reappear in the player's inventory under certain conditions. Orlan hair now renders correctly on higher quality settings. Pentiment achievement no longer requires the completion of a side quest in Emerald Stair that is only available based on certain main quest decisions. The player will no longer end up in a broken state that prevents them from receiving the achievement "Cooking by the Book". The recipe for Crafting Adra from Adra Shards no longer disappears when the player upgrades Scavenger ability. Performance Improvements Improved performance on Beauty and Balanced modes on Xbox when in larger cities.

Honestly you can't win. If they want to be mad about whatever you do, they'll find a reason. Pretty sad existence, imo. Imagine having to be mad all the time, especially about the contents of video games when there's so many games you can play.

Not to tin foil hat but would they put this much effort in for a game that launched so long ago? Or do they have ….other plans in the future…. a guy can dream! KICKSTART AN ICEWIND DALE STYLE PILLARS GAME I WILL SEND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND PICTURES OF MY WIFES BOOBS

WE ARE SO BACK JESUS LOVES US AND LOVES OBSIDIAN !!!!! @thelee @Boeroer @MaxQuest @omgFIREBALLS EVERYONE GET IN HERE!!!!!! and yes I volunteer for the turn based testing

hey just a friendly nudge that you should post anything useful you find. i think the deadfire fan base is heavily skewed towards RTWP so there's a big knowledge gap with turn-based mode. if you find something that works in TB pretty well, you should post it for the benefit of posterity.

So, what do you like about Tiny Fishing that makes it worthwhile to play? I am currnetly playing We Are Warriors on my phone, which is a great idle game with just a smidgen of strategy involved. You can unlock cool skills and fun heroes, and best of all, if you're stuck - as it is normal with idle games - you can just open your wallet and buy yourself progression. The best part is how that progression is random, so you don't even know if you can proceed after buying in-game currency. If you get unlucky it'll just increase your units' hitpoints, and not their damage. But! During events you can just buy additional points for the skill tree. And they're only 2.49€ per piece. What a great deal!

Handsome Squidward is the wrong colour, and has hair. That is either the greatest or worst looking game ever.

Suddenly it makes sense:

Results of my test are: - Spell damage scales with character level but it can be penalized by low quality of equipped weapon. You need equipped weapon or offhand at least the tier of the enemy (in reach of 3 ranks) to not suffer penalty to damage done (this penalty scale also with difficulty settings). - Summoned weapons scale with the highest tier of equipped items - including boots, gloves, neklace, rings. Accessories don't have quality prefix but they are color coded (blue = fine, purple = excellent, red = superb, gold = legendary). Summoned weapons scale to both quality and rank of the highest quality armor or weapon (max to legendary +3), but in tests with accessory only summoned weapon always use its tier +0. - Skulls indicators aren't important. They inform of challange rating only. With tier II armor and tier I weapon enemy of tier II has no skulls while player is still penalized in terms of damage done, but he will receive normal damage from that enemy thanks to fine armor. Skulls are calculated based on all equipped items, but penalty to damage output and incoming damage are two separated things, realitve to enemy tier while damage is done.

I decided to play Pathfinder Kingmaker I have never played any of the Owlcat games so I I know nothing about the IP, mechanics or ruleset Im about 6 hours into this game and I can tell its going to be a fantastic PC " Table-top " rules based RPG experience It reminds me of D&D which is obvious because I assume some of the Pathfinder mechanics are similar? And since D&D is my favourite ruleset that works for me I am still learning a lot and I have adopted the TB combat system and because this is my first playthrough I selected Gimar as a pre-made protagonist. I generally always choose magic users anyway

I stopped recreationally drinking around a year ago and the effects are profound. Ive lost ~9 pounds and I feel better than I have in decades. I didnt even know I was feeling suboptimal until I felt what it was like to feel optimal. That stuff is poison. Fun poison, but poison none the less. We dont drink pop at all and havent for years. Another poison right there too.

Quantum Computer Generates Truly Random Number in Scientific First : ScienceAlert

Bug? I thought that's a feature!

Currently playing Tunic. The exploration is amazing (unironically) - I managed to enter a late-game area from the wrong side and spent an hour having my HP drained (I dropped the difficulty after 4 attempts due to the checkpoint in the area not working; it did not make it obvious for me that something was off). It was a rather interesting experience, nonetheless. I also love the manual-styled in-game manual. The map, fortunately, tracks the location, though even using the landmarks is easy. Tried the open alpha test of Shadow of the Road (published by Owlcat). It is a tactical game in the steampunk Japanese setting. The tutorial battle was as easy as it could be. The dialogues required responding as both pre-made party members (like in DOS1, if it had fixed characters) and had quite a few Japanese words untranslated, such as "foreigner" or "cup". There were some notifications, such as "MC1 was pushed towards X path" and "Relationship between MC1 and MC2 improved", but I am unsure what exactly it means in the long term (only the ending or some stat changes or quest availability). There also was a timed choice at the end. Given the checkpoint-based saving system, I found it rather unpleasant. In the second area, a forest with an estate, my GPU hit 86C and I closed the game with Alt+F4. There were no graphical settings, except the resolution, so nothing to drop (there was also some sort of dirt filter on the screen, which was not possible to disable). The cut-scenes were a mix of animated slides with in-engine scenes (think Rogue Trader). The VA is Japanese only, which was very unfortunate, considering the size of the text (not impossible to read, but uncomfortable). The story is closer to fantasy than anything too historical, thouth the god-descending emperor prosecuting the Shinto followers was somewhat odd to see. The tree-hopping ninjas in black pajamas with swords on their backs confirmed the high fantasy setting. I am unlikely to purchase, but the playtest is there and free to participate. Another consideration in regard to Owlcat:

Yeah, once upon a time I was a gov't contractor and I still have a lot of feds and contractors on LinkedIn. It's funny seeing the Trump supporters crying now that they've lost their jobs, he was supposed to get "them" not "us" The schadenfreude, mmm, chef's kiss. I guess we've found the limit on their willingness to eat **** to make liberals smell their breath

Right now, I'm playing Diablo IV and Control Ultimate Edition. They promote world peace and harmony much like my other hobby of ikebana. I really ought to be enlarging my mind by traipsing around medieval Bohemia instead since KCD2 is out on GOG now but no rush. That always reminds me of the story from... Thief Deadly Shadows*? about them playtesting a level with a bunch of off the street type gamers. They were told (in game) under no circumstances should they leave the party they were at. Most didn't have a clue how to progress because, of course, you were meant to ignore the guards etc and leave the party. Which lead to a load of hand holding type stuff being added because it actually was necessary. *or Dishonoured/ DXHR maybe? [from context, almost certainly was in fact Dishonoured]

Just in case someone wondered : Constant Recovery is now 5+1.5 per 3 level per tick (checked in game + in file) Rapid Recovery still adds 2+0.6 per 3 level per tick (unchanged) Veteran Recovery is still 3+1 per 3 level per tick (unchanged)

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All I recall about that game Amerzone was a PCG review savaging it. But I guess can't beat the price...although Still Life 2 taught me that free can be too expensive

Arcanum is the one game from that era that I also have never played, but which I have wondered about playing. And then I keep telling myself to wait for a remasterd/enhanced version to come out. But maybe I should play it now before it gets way too old to enjoy.

All the false penguins listed in a neat video:

While I replayed Arcanum handful of times, I am still yet to full tech playthrough. It's such a gem. Troika's RPG triumph. I wish someone would remaster it and tweak few things here and there.

Amerzone, a classic adventure game for grabs on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/amerzone_the_explorer_legacy Also System Shock 2 Remaster is on preorder.

On another note, I've completed Avowed now so I'll have a lot more time to spend on Apotheosis

Did you read your own review? "Everything was great. Game was a letdown."

I agree with thelee. MAX MIG/PER/INT in a party is right. Maybe you can use Aloth's armor and other INT or range buff (i.e. pet) to extend chanter's invocations.

I also felt it had very little bugs. Always hard to notice ones that have to do with numbers etc, but I'd say for games in general, it was very stable. I'd prefer a PoE3, but I'd play Avowed2 as well.

I didn't get the impression that Avowed was overly buggy. I had one quest out of around a hundred that was a bit wonky. Other than that, it was the least buggy Obsidian title I've played. Outer Worlds was also pretty stable, so I suppose the engine deserves credit. FO:NV is still a buggy mess. As for @Wormerine comparing it to a Ubisoft title, that's crazy. Ubisoft games have forced narratives and completely shallow storytelling. I don't know how you can even compare the two. I could not disagree with you more on that. If you want to call it a Disney+ show, I guess I get that more. Not that all Disney+ shows are the same, but the fan service and stretched out concepts make sense. As a fan, I tend to enjoy fan service. I do agree the game feels stretched out in places. It's like they created a foundation, but they weren't able to build out the whole house. That being said, I absolutely loved the foundation and the parts of the house that they built. I expect to see them continue to expand on this type of game. It's like Outer Worlds was the prototype and this is V1. Anyways, despite the lukewarm feeling of the posters here, it seems to be doing very well. It looks like it is outperforming Outer Worlds, so we should see some plenty more content to come. I enjoyed PoE 1 and 2, but Eora really came to life for me in the Living Lands, and I look forward to exploring more of it this way.

Oh yah, was just her trying to convince my mom to quit smoking as that won't kill you instantly, etc. To be honest she doesn't smoke so much as just burn cigs, I should tell her to just burn $20 bills. Was just something I'd never expect to hear from a doctor. Guess she saw The Kingdom. But is true I guess. Pro-tip for social interactions though, don't ask people if they ever wonder how they'll die

Yeah, probably why I thought the drake fight was so comically easy. A 15-20 second affliction with a generous enough AoE to hit everything at once that early is quite nice IMO. Of course the next writ's nowhere near as good IMO, but still. I've only ever used Xoti so I'm not that used to a priest doing work, I suppose.

it's alright. Dazed is available at AT1 for priests and is good for engagement and survivability. i think it's mostly useful against bosses in longer fights [where longer duration from writ is useful] or in situations where you'd have a hard time landing a strength affliction [barbarians, might immunity, etc]

Hey all, just to update here - We are working on pushing this patch live very soon, we are just waiting for final word on certification and then we should be good to go. Thanks for understanding and apologies for the long timeline on this one, we just wanted to be extra sure we got all the platforms in line and gave plenty of time for folks to get eyes on the beta. Will update soon!